Hi, well, everyone else is introducing themselves and their blog, so I’ll do the same. I’m Kathryn Born, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Chicago Art Magazine and 3 other Arts & Culture websites that are connected to it. I’m here to talk about weekly art news, and that means I’m sunk, because news about Tony Tasset’s Read more…
Stikman (Image lifted from Atkinson Designs) It’s not, perhaps, the most auspicious way to kick off a blog, but the thing I want to tell you about is gone. Then again, I was hunting down illicit art and “ephemeral” is a precondition. I had been walking from here to there along Michigan Avenue last month, Read more…
Monumental public art is no stranger to Chicago. The Picasso in Daley Plaza is a Chicago icon. Cloud Gate and Crown Fountain draw both tourists and natives alike to the city’s playground of Millennium Park. It is safe to say Chicagoans are used to seeing large-scale artwork in their city. What they may not be Read more…
Sunday was the last day to see The Art Institute of Chicago’s blockbuster Matisse show. Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 had a lofty goal: to show the artist’s previously unexplored evolutionary period, when he developed what he would later call “the methods of modern construction.” The show was impressive in both the amount and variety of Read more…
Why do Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds summon such a dream-like, fanciful state that other Mylar balloons don’t? I believe it is the pillow shape and reflective silver color. They are at once futuristic and welcoming. This installation could easily be found on the set of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, with the difference being that these clouds Read more…
There is a lot of planning that goes into making Fear No Art Chicago. Elysabeth Alfano is the face of the program and the Executive Producer, but there are several other people who help make the program a reality. There are the generous sponsors who give their support, the artists who open their studios to Read more…
Welcome to the Fear No ART Chicago blog and the Behind the Scenes World of Chicago’s Independent Artists Fear No ART Chicago has been a creation in the making for a long time. When I owned my glass art gallery on Superior Street, the most popular events by far were the artist studio visits. Even Read more…
Final Screening of the Season of Fear No ART Chicago, with Lauren Lein Fashions, at the David Weinberg Gallery On May 23, The David Weinberg Gallery at 300 W. Superior celebrated the last showing of the Spring season of Fear No ART Chicago. Hosting art collectors and fashionistas from 3:30 – 5:30 PM, guest mingled Read more…
A few snap shots of a great time! Voila the VIP screening party pix. [nggallery id=1] [nggallery id=4] Share This!
Remember when David Byrne of the Talking Heads in the song Once in a Lifetime sang, “..and you may ask yourself, ‘What? How Did I get here?!’ “. I am constantly pinching myself and wondering the same. Click on the link for my story on the Chicago Artist Resource site, as part of Chicago Artist Read more…
